Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1887-09-05
Sunday ThOughts-Religion and
Science

bert Spencer. Bob Ingersoll and
others offer us science in the place
of religion. Darwin's theory of the
creation of man is that he it the re-
suit of evolution, that an intinitesi-
NAL speck, a nomad, is the head
from which man sprung. Only think
OF it, an insect, IA larger and still
larger one, an animal and still
another, a monkey, an ape II man.
Think of such creation and trace
back your aristocratic lineage. This
question of evolution is answered by
itself; according to Biblical history,
the world in its present state has
existed 1891 years, and yet in all
that time no one has ever seen or
known of an evolved human being.
And does it not seem if evolution
had been the first great cause,
that it would still have continued,
aud that within the cycles of time
as known to humanity, that one in
stance at least, of an evolved man
might have been known? Proctor,
tells us that the earth once existed
in a nebulous state, and that revolv
ing around its common centre, gui-
ded by the laws of nature and chem
istry, its affinities sought each other
aud formed the earth. All have their
theories of creation, all their
theories of the hereafter and in the
latter they neither give or promise
us anything, but one long unbroken
sleep without any recompense for
the weary struggles aud heartburn
ings of life. The very thought of
nothingncss is horrible to contem-
plate, and this is all they give us.
There is no laying down to the sleep
of a night to wake and greet the
beauties of a morn; no hope, no
faith, nothing but nothtngneSs.
Human intelligence, human faith
tells us like Cato.
"This in a nom, Mt brings me to my end,
But this informs me | shall never die. y
And so resting on the faith that
is within us we cling to the belief
that
s"Tis not the whole of life to live
Nor all of death to die.
Contrary to scientists views of
creation, the Bible teaches: "And
the spirit of God moved upon the
face of the waters, And God said
let there be light, and there was
light, And God saw the light that
it was good" So with us we see the
light of religion, and it is good.
While science gives no promise, re-
ligion teaches us we shall rise again,
and tells us of Savior who has said:
81 am the resurrection and the
life." But then we are sold that:
..Creeds grow so thick by the way
Their boughs hide God;
] cannot pray.
Upon this subject while admit
ting the general proposition as to
the number of creeds, in christiani-
ty they al teach salvation through
Christ, and while their mode and
manner of adaptation is different,
the one guiding star, the one COM
pass is Christ and Him only. What
matters it to rs if churches differ in
the mode or manner, so that the
same great cardinal principles ac-
tuate them all Henry Ward Bee
cher, in the discussion of the differ
ences among the churches once
reasoned in this wise: "The broad
Atlantic laves the rocky cliffs of
Portland, as the sandy shores of
Galveston. Ships sail on the breast
OF this old ocean from all the points
between the two. Liverpool is their
destination; they saiIin different d.
rectiOns, but they are waited by the
same winds, guided BY the same
compass, take the meridien from the
same sun, have the same objective